Zope News for April 1 - 15, 2006
“… required to pay the Python Software Foundation a royalty of $US 1.25 per installed copy.” PSF News: Python 2.5 Licensing Change - April 1, 2006
“The inflow of cash will enable vital changes, like changing __main__ to ___main___, and finally get rid of unittest and doctest.” - Tim Peters
Tres Seaver starts eggifying big parts of Zope3 (Palladion Software: Eggifying Zope), now available at download.zope.org/distribution.
Stéfane Fermigier, Stephan Richter, Maik Röeder and Tarek Ziadé join forces and create zope-cookbook.org, a website that gathers recipes and tutorials for Zope 3.
Philipp von Weitershausen updates his proposal to Make zope.app smaller (or PackageGeddon Directors Cut).
Christian Theune: DZUG [German Zope User Group] is preparing a fair booth on the Linux Tag and wants you to submit Your best Zope (3) tricks.
Zope Europe Association changes its name to Zea Partners (Zea) — a non-profit business partner network for companies building Zope systems. The site also features the Zea Screencast Library.
Jeremy Hylton on the Python Tutorial Wiki effort:
It’s probably the most important Python documentation project going. There haven’t been 175 edits to the tutorial in the last five years.
If we only could do such a thing with zope.org … (sigh)
Releases
Infrae releases Silva 1.5.3- Python 2.5 (alpha 1), the first alpha release of Python 2.5 is available from python.org
- Divmod Nevow has reached release version 0.8.0
Useful Links
- Authoritative Metadata - a W3C TAG document on how each message’s control data and payload should be interpreted
- W3C Working Draft - The XMLHttpRequest Object - This specification defines the XMLHttpRequest object, an API that provides some HTTP client functionality
- David Goodger & Chris Liechti just published Easy Slide Shows With reST & S5 - “How to create quick, good-looking presentation slide shows with Docutils/reStructuredText and S5″
- Guido van Rossum: Python 3000 - Adaptation or Generic Functions? - “We’ve started discussing Python 3000 for real. There’s a new mailing list and a branch.”
- Python Cheese Shop: dataurl 1.0 - Module to convert to and from Data URL [RFC2397]
- simplejson is a simple, fast, complete, correct and extensible JSON encoder/decoder for Python 2.3+. It is pure Python code with no dependencies. It’s now the recommended module for Python use by JSON.org (replacing json-py).
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